Foundations of Independence
The Early Republic
Expansion, Sectionalism & Civil War
Reconstruction & Reform
Industrialization, Populism & Progressivism
100

Which phrase summarized colonists’ anger at being taxed by a government across the ocean?

No Taxation Without Representation

100

George Washington’s Farewell Address warned the nation to avoid what?



What are foreign alliances and political divisions?

100

What 1830 law led to the Trail of Tears and forced Native Americans west?



What is the Indian Removal Act?

100

Which amendments ended slavery, granted citizenship, and gave voting rights to African Americans?


What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?

100

What term describes hostility toward foreign-born people and preference for native-born citizens?


What is Nativism?

200


What 1765 statement declared that only colonial legislatures could tax colonists, inspiring resistance to Parliment?


What is the Stamp Act Congress?

200

What 1798 laws limited free speech and targeted immigrants during Adams’ presidency?


What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?

200

What phrase by Abraham Lincoln warned that the Union could not endure “half slave and half free”?

What is “A house divided cannot stand”?

200

What laws reversed Reconstruction progress and legalized segregation? (hint- James black bird)


What are the Jim Crow laws?

200

What was the main goal of labor unions during the Gilded Age?



What is to improve wages and working conditions?

300

The Articles of Confederation were designed mainly to prevent what problem that existed under British rule?


What is the abuse of power by a strong central government?

300

How did Hamilton’s National Bank and Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase both demonstrate the flexibility of the Constitution?

They showed implied powers could be used to strengthen the nation.

300

What event confirmed the supremacy of the federal government over the states?

What is the Union victory in The Civil War

300

Which 19th-century reform movement was inspired by the Second Great Awakening?

What is the social reform movement (abolition, temperance, women’s rights)?

300

What was the major effect of Populist and Progressive movements on U.S. politics?


Their reforms were later adopted by major parties.

400

Shays’ Rebellion revealed the weaknesses of what early American system of government?

What is the AOC

400

What issue did the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the Nullification Crisis both address?

What is states’ rights to reject federal laws?

400

What was the primary purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862?


To encourage western settlement through land ownership.

400

What was George Washington’s main concern about “Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western” divisions?


What is sectionalism threatening national unity?

400

According to Booker T. Washington, what was the “little green ballot”?


What is money and economic independence?

500

Which founding principle of the Declaration of Independence justified citizens revising or abolishing a government that denied basic rights?

What is the right to alter or abolish an unjust government?


500

What foreign policy document declared that the American continents were closed to future European colonization?

What is the Monroe Doctrine

500

What did W.E.B. DuBois argue education should produce among African Americans?


Leaders of thought and culture (the Talented Tenth).

500

Which event demonstrated that the federal government could enforce its laws—like Washington’s response in 1794?



What is the Whiskey Rebellion?

500

Which president’s “Square Deal” used federal power to control monopolies and protect consumers?



Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

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